The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-13

dred back againl Go out and meet your
father and mother without the staff or the
stoop, and your children in dance of immor-
tai glee. Do you want throne? Select it
from the million FURNISHED elevations Do
you want crown! Pick it out of that noun
tain Of diamonded coronets Do you want
your old church friends of earth around yous
Begin to hum an old revival tune and they
will flock from all quarters to revel with you
II sacred ren1iniscence. All the earth for
chose who are here on earth at the time of
continental and planetary distribution, and all
the b. avens for those who arc there.
That heavenly distribution of spoils will be
a surprise to many. Here enters heaven the
soul Of a man who took up a great deal of
room on earth, but sacrificed little, and among
his good works selfishness was evident. He
just crowds through tho shining gate, but it
is very tight squeeze, SO that the doorkeeper
has to pull away to get him in, aid this man
expects half heaven for his share of trophies,
and he would like monopoly Of all his splen-
dor and to purchase lots in the suburbs, so
that he could get advantage from the growth
of the city. Well, he had a little grace of
heart, just enough to get him through, and to
him is given a second hand crown, which one
of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged
for brighter one as he went on from glory
to glory. And he is put in an old house once
occupied by an angel who was hurled out of
heaven at the time of Satan's rebellion
Right after him comes a soul that makes
great stir among the Celestials, and the
angels rush to the scene, each bringing her
dazzling coronet. Who is she? Over what
realm on earth was she queena In what great
Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatrice?
Neither. She was an invalid who never left
her room for twenty years; but she was
strong in prayer, and she prayed down revi-
val after revival, and peptecost after pente-
cost, upon the churches, and with her pale
hands she knit many a mitten or tippet for
the poor, and with her contrivances
she added joy to many a holiday
festival, and now, with those thin hands
SO strong for kindness, and with those white
lips SO strong for supplication, she has won
coronation, and enthronement, and Jubilee
And Christ says to the angels who have
brought each crown for the gIorified in
valid' eNo, not these; they are not good
enough. But in the jeweled vase at the right
hand side of my throne there is one that l
have been preparing for her many year,
and for her every pang have set an anne
thyst, and for her every good deed have set
pearl Fetch it now and fulfill the promise
[ gave her long ago in the sick room: BE
thou faithful unto death and l will give thee
IL CROWN"
But notice that there is only one being in
the universe who can and will distribute the
trophies of earth and heaven. 1t is the di-
vine ruler, the commander in chief of the cen
turies, the champion Of the ages, the univer-
sal conquerer, the son of God, Jesus You
will take the spoils from his hand, or never
take them at ALL Have his friendship and
you may defy al time and all eternity; but
without it you were a pauper, though
you had a universe at your COM
mand. We are told in Revelation that
Jacobs twelve sons were so hcnored as to
have the twelve gates of heaven named after
them-over one gate Of heaven NaphtaIi,
over another gate of heaven Issachar, over
another Dan, over another Cad, over another
Zebu1on, over another Judah, and so on. But
Christ's name is written over oil the gates,
and on every panel of the gates and have His
help, His pardon, His intercession, His atone
ment must, or be a forlorn wretch forever
My Lord and my God! make me and all who
hear me this day, and all to whom these
words shall come, be Thy repentant, believ-
ing, sworn, consecrated and ransomed fol
lowers forever.
What day it will be! This entire assem-
blage would rise to your feet if you could
realize it, the day in which Christ shall in
fulilment of my text divide the spoil It
was great day when Queen. Victoria, in the
midst Of the Crimean war; distributed medals
to the soldiers who had come home sick and
wounded At the Horse Guards, in presence
of the royal family, the injured men were
carried in or came on crutches-Col. Trow-
bridge, who lost both feet at Inkerman; and
Capt Sayer, who had the ankle joint of his
| right leg shot off at Alma; and Capt. Currie,
his disabled limb supported by a soldier, and
others MANNED and disfgured. and exhausted
and with her own hand the queen gave
each the Crimean medal And what
triumphant days for those soldiers when,
further on, they received the French medal
with the imperial eagle, and the Turkish
medal with its representation of four flags
France, Turkey, England and Sardinia-and
beneath it q map of the Crimea spread over a
| gun wheel.
And what rewards are suggested to all
readers of history by the mere mention of the
Waterloo medal, and the Cape medal, and the
Gold Cross medal, and the medal struck for
bravery in our American war But how in
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when the good soldiers of Jesus Christ shall
come in out of the battles of this world, and
in the presence of all the piled up glories of
the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesus, our
king, shall divide the spoil The more
wounds, the greater the inheritance. The
longer the forced march, the more
vivid the trophy. The more terrific
the exhaustion, the more untroubled
the transport. Not the gift of brilliant rib
bon, or medal of brass or silver or gold, but
kingdom in which we are to reign for ever
and ever. Mansions on the eternal hills, do
minions of unfading power, empires of un
ending love, continents of everlasting light
Atlantic and Pacific oceans Of billowing Joy
1t was a great day when Aurelian, ths
| Roman emperor, came back from his victor
les In the front Of the procession were
| wild beasts from all lands, 1,6Ot
gladiators richly clad, wagon loads Of
crowns presented by conquered cities; among
the captives, Syrians Egyptians, Goths
Vandals, Sarmatians, Franks; and Zenobia
the beautiful captive queen, on foot in chain.
of gold that a slave had to help her carry, anc
Jewels under the weight of which she almos
tainted. And then came the chariot of Au
relian drawn by four elephants in gorgeous
caparison and followed by the Roman senate
and the Roman army, and from dawn till darl
the procession was passing. Rome in all hel
history never saw anything more magnificent
But how much greater the day when our con
queror, Jesus shall ride under the triumpha
arches of heaven; his captives. hand or foo
or in chariots, all the kingdoms of earth ant
heaven; in procession the armies celestial Oh
white horses. Rumbling artillery of thunder
bolts never again to be unlimbered. King
donls in line, centuries in line, sanity cherubic
seraphic, archangelic splendors in line, anc
Christ seated on one great rolling hosanna
made out of all hallelujahs Of all worlds, shall
cry haiti to the procession. And not forget
ting even the humblest in all the reach of hi
omnipresence, he shall rise, and then ant
there, his work done and his glory consum
mated, proceed, amid an ecstacy such a
neither mortal nor immortal ever imagined
to divide the spoil
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